Police in Belarus detained 317 people during protests in Minsk and across the country on Sunday, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. Tens of thousands of people marched through the centre of Minsk to demand that the authorities free political prisoners, prompting police to turn a water...

Oman has sent an ambassador to Syria, becoming the first Gulf Arab state to do so after they downgraded or shut missions in Damascus in 2012 over attacks by the government there on protests at the start of what turned into a war. Oman is one of the rare Arab countries that kept diplomatic...

A Turkish drilling ship returned to port Monday from contested waters near Cyprus, according to a naval tracking website, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan prepared to receive the head of NATO. The Turkish navy had said last month that the Yavuz would stay in eastern Mediterranean waters...

The United Kingdom passed 500,000 confirmed coronavirus infections on Sunday, official figures showed, in the latest grim milestone for the European country worst-hit by the pandemic. Health authorities blamed a technical glitch for a sudden spike in cases announced in evening figures that...